Household debt just hit a new all-time high. Here's how to slash your high-rate card balances before they spiral.

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your financial health.

We're on course to spend $1 trillion just on interest payments on the national debt this year, exceeding our spending on our ...

The U.S. Treasury is widely expected this week to announce its intention to keep note and bond auction sizes unchanged over ...

The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high ...

Without a speaker, lawmakers cannot formally certify Donald Trump's win, raising personal stakes for the president-elect to ...

The U.S. national debt is a mix of government bonds that trade daily and non-marketable securities that sit exclusively on federal ledgers. This "intragovernmental" debt is money owed by one arm of ...

The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act increased the debt limit to $41.2 trillion, or 136 percent of GDP. Some believe that Congress will have to raise the debt limit again before the 2026 ...

The national debt is the total that a country owes to its creditors. This includes debt held by the public and ...

Canada's main stock index edged higher on Wednesday as optimism that a U.S. debt-ceiling deal could be reached offset worries ...

From the White House to Congress, lawmakers are hashing it out on how to solve the nation's massive debt crisis -- and the negotiations, shall we say, are less than pretty. President Obama is set to ...